Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stops and smells the flowers

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English

Syllables
stop-s and s-mell-s the flow-ers
IPA
38
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does stops and smells the flowers mean?
third-person singular simple present indicative of stop and smell the flowers

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